Alistair Fox

His PhD dissertation, “Thomas More’s View of English Historical Experience in the Controversial Writings”,[3] testifies to his sustained interest in this compelling figure dubbed "a man for all seasons" by Erasmus, More's contemporary and friend.

[12] Despite the apparent range and diversity of his research areas, he retains his initial interest in the creative process, describing his approach as "psychocritical", "genetico-biographical", and "nosographic", drawing upon, respectively, Charles Mauron, Francis Vanoye, and Christian Metz, as he explains in his most recent publication, Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema (2023).

[13] In this last volume, Fox, as in many of his earlier projects, relies upon sources not available in English, assisted by his reading knowledge of a number of European languages, including Italian, German and French.

"[21] Czech reviewer Jana Bébarová describes Fox's 2011 monograph Jane Campion: Authorship and Personal Cinema as "a remarkable and enriching perspective on the unique work of the most important woman director of her time",[22] a view shared by Michel Ciment, editor of the French film journal Positif, who characterizes the volume as "remarquable".

[25] His most recent monograph Melodrama, Masculinity and International Art Cinema offers a comprehensive application of the theory of authorship laid out in the earlier Speaking Pictures, through an analysis of a set of award winning and historically significant auteur films that focus on a male protagonist.